College: UConn's win streak ends at 90 in loss to Stanford

The Huskies never led and were beaten by No. 9 Stanford 71-59 Thursday night, ending a run that drew national attention to women's basketball.

Stanford was the last school to beat the Huskies, in the 2008 NCAA semifinals.

Jeanette Pohlen hit five 3-pointers on the way to a career-high 31 points and the Cardinal (9-2) had the Huskies' number at last -- a huge number at that. Stanford won its 52nd straight at Maples Pavilion in a rematch of last season's NCAA title game won 53-47 by two-time defending national champion UConn.

Last week, the Huskies (12-1) topped the 88-game winning streak set by John Wooden's UCLA men's team from 1971-74 by beating No. 22 Florida State 93-62, then won their 90th in a row this week at Pacific.

Huskies star Maya Moore was held to 14 points on 5-of-15 shooting. UConn hadn't lost since an 82-73 defeat to Stanford on April 6, 2008, in the Final Four at Tampa.

The Wolverines (8-5, 1-0 Big Ten) snapped a 14-game losing streak to Ohio State, beating them for the first time since 2001. Ohio State (8-4, 0-1) has lost three straight, starting with a 31-point loss to top-ranked Connecticut.

Penn State 68, No. 14 Iowa 59

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Alex Bentley scored 19 points and Penn State used a 12-1 run over 3 1/2 minutes to rally from a seven-point deficit and beat Iowa.

No. 16 Notre Dame 91,

Loyola Marymount 47.

SEATTLE -- Freshman Kayla McBride scored 20 points in a reserve role and No. 16 Notre Dame shot well, defeating Loyola Marymount at the Seattle University Holiday Tournament. Notre Dame (11-3) and Loyola Marymount (6-8) each won their openers Wednesday. The tournament didn't officially bill this as the championship game.

The Hoyas (12-3) pulled away by scoring the last six points of the first half for a 38-28 lead, then got 10 of the first 13 points after the break. Tia McGee scored seven of her 13 points in the big run.

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COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Marcus Denmon matched his season best with five 3-pointers and scored 22 points, helping No. 10 Missouri to a surprisingly decisive 81-58 victory over Old Dominion on Thursday night.

Reserve Michael Dixon added 18 points and four assists and Matt Pressey had 15 points, five rebounds and three steals for the Tigers (13-1).

No. 19 UCF 68, Princeton 62

ORLANDO -- Marcus Jordan saw to it that the unbeaten run for Central Florida stayed intact.

Jordan scored 22 of his 26 points in the second half to help the Knights rally past Princeton.

The son of NBA star Michael Jordan scored nine straight points early in the second half to wipe out a 37-29 halftime deficit for the Knights (13-0).

Jordan took over almost every Central Florida possession. Just as important, he limited Dan Mavraides to just two points after the Princeton guard lit up the Knights with 18 points in the first half.

"Marcus scored 26 points, which was just an unbelievable effort, but the amazing thing was what he did defensively," UCF coach Donnie Jones said. "I challenged our guys at halftime to come out with an edge the first five minutes or we were going to the subs and (Jordan) certainly did that."

Jordan played on a sore ankle that prevented him from starting the previous two games.

"The ankle was killing me the whole game, but I just kept telling myself to push through it," Jordan said.

The sophomore guard shot 6-for-9 from the field in the second half and made 10 of 11 free throws. His fallaway 16-footer gave UCF its first lead of the game at 40-39 with 14:47 left in the game.

"He made a few shots to start the second half and you could see his confidence start to build up," Mavraides said. "I thought we did a pretty good defensively on him the whole game, but he made some really, really tough shots."